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【Sasha Lecture Hall No. 1623】 (Lecture 795 of the Historical Series)
Why did Khrushchev invite star Monroe to dinner? On August 5, 1962, American film actress Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose of sleeping pills in her Los Angeles apartment.
Monroe was killed nine times out of ten, but she just couldn't find evidence.
Today, without talking about Monroe's death, we will talk about why Khrushchev came to the United States to visit, but he had to eat with Monroe.
This is Khrushchev's cleverness.
Khrushchev's trip to the United States in 1959 was aimed at easing relations with the West, not at demonstrations.
After Stalin's death, Khrushchev came to power.
Khrushchev analyzed the situation and believed that the Soviet Union did not have the strength to compete with the United States. The Soviet Union's GDP in 1950 was only 31 percent of that year in the United States, less than a third.
At that time, the Soviet Union's allies in Eastern Europe, China, and Outer Mongolia were some backward developing countries.
The United States' allies, Britain and France, are all traditional capitalist powers.
Khrushchev held that international confrontation should pay attention to strength, and the Soviet Union's unauthorized intensification of confrontation with the United States was a cocoon and self-imposed.
In fact, Stalin also understood this truth.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, the Korean People's Army collapsed for a time and was almost completely annihilated by the US military.
Anyone with a modicum of common sense should know that North Korea was single-handedly supported by the Soviet Union and has an equal relationship with China.
People say that beating dogs depends on the owner, and now that North Korea is about to be beaten by the United States, the Soviet Union should send troops.
Stalin, on the other hand, believed that once the Soviet army was fully involved, it was likely to break out of World War III. At that time, the Soviet Union did not have any certainty of winning the war against the US army, so it never sent troops.
The subsequent entry of the Soviet Air Force into Korea also objectively illustrates Stalin's concerns.
It turned out that even in the MiG Corridor, near the border, the Soviet Air Force was no match for the Americans. The Soviet Union publicized to the outside world that it shot down more than 1,100 enemy aircraft, lost 335 aircraft, and sacrificed more than 200 pilots.
According to the data released by the United States, it is believed that 90% of the fighters were shot down by anti-aircraft artillery, and the US military only lost 147 fighters in the air battle, of which only 78 were the main fighter f86 "Sabre" fighters. The U.S. military shot down 976 Chinese and North Korean warplanes, which is similar to the data released by the Soviet Union.
In the past, we thought this was a bragging of the United States, but today it seems that this is not the case. In the case of the Sabre, for example, every one shot down has a rigorous examination.
In other words, the ratio of losses between the United States and the Soviet Union was at least 1:3.
This is also the record of the United States after fully grasping the air supremacy and dispatching up to 720,000 times. That is to say, the US military was able to shoot down 3 times the number of Soviet fighters during the period of wanton bombing, blockade, and air transport.
This objectively shows that the gap in strength between the US and Soviet air forces is still very large.
The 50s was also the era when the equipment gap between the US and soviet air forces was the smallest, and the MiG-15 and F86 did not have a generation difference!
Under Khrushchev's policy of relative détente, the Soviet Union began to vigorously develop its own industry and agriculture, and its economy grew rapidly.
By 1957, soviet GDP had reached 50 percent of the United States, and by 1965, when Khrushchev was ousted, it had risen directly to 59 percent of the United States. By 1975, the Soviet Union had finally reached 67 percent, which was also its peak.
From the late 1960s onwards, the Soviet Union, with its relatively close strength to the United States, began a head-on confrontation.
During the period of development, Khrushchev mainly engaged in détente with the United States and did not confront him head-on and fiercely.
The purpose of Khrushchev's visit was to détente and not to confront Mai Mang with the tip of the American needle.
When we received the invitation, Khrushchev was also quite excited: "The invitation from Washington was unexpected and we never had this expectation, so we not only have no plans to visit the United States in the near future, but also do not plan to visit the United States in the future." ...... At first I didn't even believe it. It came so suddenly, it was unbelievable, unexpected but gratifying. And it's also interesting. Would love to see the United States. The United States occupies a special place in our conception of the foreign country and in our imagination. This is the most formidable opponent of the Soviet Union, the leader of the capitalist countries, and it sets the tone for the whole anti-Soviet propaganda in the foreign world."
On this visit, Khrushchev had two strange requests: the first was to play at Disneyland, and the second was to eat with Monroe.
Both of these requirements seem to be nonsense, but they are not so simple.
At that time, the West had some demonization of both the Soviet Union and Khrushchev. Especially for Khrushchev, the Americans considered him a rude Soviet peasant who knew only how to scare people with an iron fist with nuclear bombs.
Three years ago, Khrushchev roared at US Vice President Richard Nixon: "Whether you like it or not, history will eventually be on our side." We will bury you."
As a result, the Americans never had a favorable view of the Soviet leaders.
In January 1959, Soviet leader Mikoyan visited the United States.
In Chicago, American citizens threw eggs at him and shook their fists in anger; in Los Angeles, citizens carried an open coffin with the words "Mikoyan, go and die!" ”
In order to eliminate these stereotypes, Khrushchev made 2 demands.
These demands have only one purpose: I am also an ordinary person, an ordinary man.
I'm going to Disney to play, which shows that I have a childlike heart, and people with childlike hearts are usually kinder.
Interestingly, Disney rejected Khrushchev.
Disneyland agreed, but many Americans ran to the door to march and did not allow the children's park to be linked to politics.
In desperation, Disney had to reject Khrushchev.
Khrushchev was very dissatisfied with this and said openly: What is there in that paradise that I cannot see? Are there missile launchers?
Khrushchev cried and laughed, and his request to eat with Monroe was accepted.
So why did he have dinner with Monroe?
Everyone knows that Monroe is the number one star in Hollywood in the United States. In the United States, a man and a woman eat dinner alone, especially women dress sexy, there is a strong sexual innuendo.
Many men and women turn from ordinary friends to lovers because of a candlelit dinner.
Therefore, American men will eat dinner with Monroe as the biggest dream of life.
Naturally, Comrade Khrushchev is more than 60 years old, and even if he is lustful, he is powerless.
In doing so, he only shows that he is also an ordinary man, has a lustful heart, and is not a monster.
The funny thing is that this requirement is also discounted, and the meal changes from dinner to Chinese food, not a few people such as Khrushchev and Monroe, but countless people.
More than 400 people also dined together, including many celebrities from the political, economic and entertainment worlds, most of whom were Hollywood celebrities.
At that time, the report wrote sarcastically: Many of them usually shouted anti-communism. However, in order to win this opportunity to participate, they used a lot of social relations. At the banquet, everyone was dressed in the most beautiful clothes and tried to be as close as possible to the Soviet leader.
Interestingly, Monroe's husband, the playwright Arthur Millerburn, was ruthlessly refused to attend. He was a well-known leftist who had been investigated by a House committee and was deemed unfit to eat with Khrushchev.
During the meal, Monroe and Khrushchev were at the main table, not far from each other, but not neighbors
Monroe knew nothing about politics and was not interested, and this meal was entirely arranged by the brokerage company.
Monroe's maid, Lena Pepito, wrote in her memoirs, "Monroe did not understand who Khrushchev was, but the company insisted that she go." They told Monroe that in the Soviet Union, the United States meant two things, Coca-Cola and Monroe. She enjoyed hearing that and agreed... She told me that the company wanted her to wear the tightest, sexiest outfit when she met the Soviet premier. ”
The dream was in the open air, and in her opinion, men were similar, and Khrushchev made no difference.
At the banquet, the two chatted briefly through the interpreter.
Monroe belongs to the brainless blonde beauty, just said some innocuous, even heartless gossip.
During this time, Khrushchev graciously invited Monroe to the Soviet Union: "You will eat Soviet-style pies that you will never find anywhere else." Considering the etiquette, Khrushchev also issued the same invitation to other stars at the same table.
This is the lunch of Khrushchev and Monroe, and it is entirely political.
Today, it seems that Khrushchev made a great contribution to the state and nation of the Soviet Union. Of particular importance was the abolition of Stalin's one-man system of decision-making and the introduction of a system of collective decision-making. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country insisted on the collective decision-making of the leaders, and there were no major decision-making mistakes, nor major domestic political turmoil, and the country was relatively stable.
Interestingly, Khrushchev was eventually ousted from power because of this collective decision-making system.
When Khrushchev was forced to retire, he angrily said to Brezhnev and his gang: Thank me. If it weren't for the system I created, you wouldn't have been able to overthrow me.
At the end of the writing, Sasha unconsciously admired Khrushchev.
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